ABSTRACT
This chapter proposes an account of spurious recollection via the Source of Activation Confusion (SAC) model. It also proposes to account for spurious recollection via partial matching, with model fits demonstrating that not only can SAC account for spurious recollection, but it also predicts the occurrence of such responses without significant modifications to the original theory. An interesting strategy that one could use in making Remember and know judgments is recollection-to-reject. The chapter's modeling efforts investigates the use of a recollection-to-reject strategy and finds that it did not account for any more variance than did partial matching alone. The chapter presents model fits for data from four different studies that all used a fan manipulation and varied in terms of the type of stimuli and methods used. In conclusion, the mechanistic account and modeling results reported in the chapter advances the understanding of spurious recollection across a number of manipulations.
